15 Facts about Sleep that you don’t know yet

Why do you sleep? It is a dumb question to ask, we only know that sleep is the most important factor in our lives just like exercise and eating, but here are some facts that you don’t know about sleep.

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1. Scientists have determined that counting sheep is ineffective for putting oneself to sleep. Evidently it is too boring and imagining a calming landscape generally works much better.
2. With an average lifespan of 6 – 8 years mattresses have plenty of time to gather some nasty stuff and one study even linked them to sudden infant death syndrome.
3. Somniphobia is the fear of sleep.
4. Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
5. “There are two periods of maximum sleepiness — the late afternoon (from around 3 to 5 PM) and the end of the night (from around 3 to 5 a.m.). There are also two periods of maximum alertness — around 1 a.m. in the morning and 1 p.m. in the afternoon.”
6. Some deaf people make sign language in their sleep.
7. Lack of Sleep can cause a weight gain of 2 pounds in under a week.
8. “Getting too little sleep often makes people feel hungrier than normal, leading to overeating and weight gain.”
9. It is impossible to sneeze while sleeping.
10. Most people can survive for  up to 2 months without eating, but people can only live  up to 11 days without sleeping.
11.The world record for not sleeping was set by 17-year-old Randy Gardner in 1964 when he was awake for 264 hours and 12 minutes.
12. Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
13. “A survey of 6,000 British adults found that they are more likely to fall asleep when they heard Coldplay.”
14. Tibetan monks sleep upright.
15. Half of the pilot surveyed in the UK admitted to having fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane

This is just a few of the other facts about sleep. I hope you learned something today.